Today is Monday, May 10, the 131st day of 2004. There are 235 days left in the year. On this date in 1869, a golden spike is driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first

Today is Monday, May 10, the 131st day of 2004. There are 235 days left in the year. On this date in 1869, a golden spike is driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover is given the job of FBI director. In 1933, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings in Germany. In 1940, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns, and Winston Churchill forms a new government. In 1941, Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachutes into Scotland on what he claims is a peace mission. (Hess ends up serving a life sentence at Spandau prison until 1987, when he apparently commits suicide.) In 1968, preliminary Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris. In 1978, Britain's Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announce they are divorcing after 18 years of marriage. In 1984, the International Court of Justice says the U.S. should halt any actions to blockade Nicaragua's ports (the U.S. has already said it would not recognize World Court jurisdiction on this issue.)
May 10, 1979: Former Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube workers who have exhausted their unemployment benefits might be eligible for 13 additional weeks of compensation if legislation introduced in the Ohio House becomes law.
The running battle between 2nd Ward Councilman Herman Starks and Youngstown's Community Relations Commission escalates into a full-blown war when Starks accuses the commission of overlooking racial blockbusting and condoning a conflict of interest by a staff member.
Both Ohio senators, John Glenn and Howard M Metzenbaum, vote for President Carter's amended standby gas-rationing plan, which passes the Senate 58-39.
A 21-car Chessie System freight train derailment causes nearly $500,00 in damages and blocks two B & amp;O rail tracks off Selkirk-Bush Road.
May 10, 1964: An old-time museum opens to the public on Market Street Extension near the Ohio Turnpike. Called Thomasville, after its owner, Clarence Thomas, a local builder and former Youngstown fire chief, the nine buildings copied from Main Street in Disneyland contain an extensive collection of antiques. There are several antique cars and an old steam engine from the Carbon Limestone Co.
Sgt. George E. Smith, 25, of Chester, W.Va., previously reported missing in action in Viet Nam, is described as a prisoner of war in a Communist newspaper account.
The Youngstown Chapter of the American Federation of Teachers receives its charter from national AFT President Carl J. Megel during a presentation dinner at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.
Paul C. Rafferty, president of Youngstown Reproduction Inc., can, will and does copy anything. The company's newest Xerox machine will even copy engineering drawings that are 10 feet long and 3 feet wide.
May 10, 1954: Joseph Lustig, who came to America with only 5 cents at the age of 13 and rose to a position of wealth and influence as one of Youngstown's top businessmen, dies in North Side Hospital at the age of 94. He had spent the day before his death in his company's downtown shoe store, suffered a heart attack while watching a baseball game on television and died within hours.
The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority, faced with possible loss of 300 low-rent units because of repeated litigation, is making another effort to get construction of the Kimmel Brook Homes project under contract.
Warren wins two championships in the Ahepa bowling and basketball competition held in Warren between teams from Warren, Youngstown and Canton.
May 10, 1929: Commissioners of Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Ashtabula counties, meeting in Youngstown, adopt a resolution asking the state highway department to designate a lake-to-river road, which will cost $489,000 to build, a state highway.
Prominent Republicans in the Mahoning Valley, aroused over the failure of the House ways and means committee to include calf leather among dutiable imports, send telegrams to President Hoover asking him to favor protection of the leather industry.
Youngstown is host to more than 5,000 convention visitors from all parts of the country, and 1,500 more are expected in a week as the Rebekahs, dentists, Sokols and Lions meet in the city. Efforts of the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations to make Youngstown a real convention city are bearing fruit.
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